I like all the kinds of music I’ve been into. I’m certainly not a purist in that I will only play country licks in a country song or blues licks in blues stuff.
JERRY GARCIAThe great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That’s enlarging.
More Jerry Garcia Quotes
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I think the Muslim religious is a little too tight. It doesn’t fit humans. Humans can’t possibly fit into it, so there are a lot of really unhappy people, terribly repressed.
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If you think of music as a universal language, it still has some very powerful dialects.
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Everything is traditionally slow – much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.
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The Grateful Dead plays at religious services essentially.
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And when you don’t have to talk to the person next to you, that’s real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.
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I Don’t Think There’s A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I’m Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain.
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And for me there’s still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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The nature of what we’re doing is something, which is by its very nature, is non-formulaic.
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Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul.
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I think The Grateful Dead kind of represents the spirit of being able to go out and have an adventure in America at large.
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Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you’ve been to some of those places, you think, ‘How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?’
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It doesn’t matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is.
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Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.
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Each person makes their own decision about what it is that is happening, whether they like it or don’t like it, whether they want to lend their energy to it or not or what, you know.
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To me, that’s the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That’s the basic, ultimate freedom.
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